Jesse Owens: Last News

Nazi-themed wedding.On the day, the bride named only as “Josefina,” rolled up to the wedding in a VW Beetle emblazoned with swastikas that sported an “SS” personalised number plate.Meanwhile her husband-to-be “Fernando” sported a full Nazi officer’s uniform, complete with death’s head insignia on the cap.The VW was chosen as German designer Ferdinand Porsche was commissioned by Adolf Hitler to build the "people's car” in the 1930s.Even the date of the wedding – April 29 – had been carefully selected to mark the 77th anniversary of 'Der Führer’s' wedding to Eva Braun.The couple already have two kids: a daughter named Hanna after German test pilot Hanna Reitsch, a close confidante of the Nazi leader who was one of the last people to see Hitler alive and a son named "Reinhard," after notorious SS commander Reinhard Heydrich, who is remembered as principal architect of the Holocaust.Posting the photos of the poor-taste wedding the groom told the Mexican news outlet Milenio: "I understand that for many people, Hitler represents genocide, racism, and violence.“People, on the other hand, make judgments without having all of the facts or believing in the victor's history".He added: “Hitler was a vegetarian who rescued his country from famine and returned to his people the lands lost during World War I. His friends and family adored him.

Selome Hailu The History Channel has expanded its partnership with the SpringHill Company, the production company founded by LeBron James and Maverick Carter, by ordering three new documentary projects. The first title is “Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics” (working title), which will tell the story of the the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, which was shadowed by Hitler’s white supremacist agenda, when Black track and field athlete Jesse Owens made history by winning four gold medals.

The biggest story of the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin was Black track and field star Jesse Owens winning four gold medals and putting the lie to Adolf Hitler’s theories of race supremacy. A less-heralded U.S. gold medal triumph over host country Nazi Germany glides onto screens this Christmas with The Boys in the Boat from MGM Amazon Studios, directed by George Clooney.

Angelique Jackson The rise of the Adidas empire is getting the limited series treatment after independent film producer Niels Juul (“Ferrari,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”) inked a deal with the family of the brand’s founder, Adi Dassler. Juul’s No Fat Ego Productions and AD Legacy, the company set up by the Dassler’s grandchildren, have entered into a partnership to produce a fictional limited series based on Dassler’s life and the global brand he created from his small German village.

Jesse Owens’ remarkable accomplishments at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin are unimpeachable: a record four gold medals won under the eye of Adolf Hitler, who was no doubt humiliated and infuriated by the black man’s achievements on his turf.But according to a new book, one of those medals — for the 4x100m relay — almost went to Marty Glickman, the man who was the voice of New York sports for decades.In “Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend” (NYU Press), author Jeffrey S. Gurock explains how Glickman, then an 18-year-old student at Syracuse University, was scheduled to run the relay but was inexplicably pulled from the four-man team — along with fellow Jewish teammate Sam Stoller— and replaced with Owens and Ralph Metcalfe.Glickman had no doubt what had happened.

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Simone Biles and swimmer Katie Ledecky, but also the chance to watch an unknown athlete (in say a new competition like say… sport climbing?) blossom before their eyes and becoming a household name in their own right. Legends like Carl Lewis, Michael Phelps, Cassius Clay, and the greatest American Olympian, especially given the political and racial realities of the times, Jesse Owens. The four gold medals Owens—a Black man born to Alabama sharecroppers—won in the 1936 games, competing for a country that relegated him to second-class status once his spikes came off—sticking it to the Nazi propaganada machine with 110,000 Seig Heli-ing fans and a petulant Adolf Hitler in attendance–will never be equaled.